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Alvarion® Chosen to Deploy Smart City Solution in Mar del Plata, Argentina for Better Governance, Efficiency of Services and Quality of Life

TEL AVIV, Israel --(Business Wire)--

Alvarion®Ltd.(NASDAQ: ALVR), a global provider of optimized
wireless broadband solutions addressing the connectivity, coverage and
capacity challenges of public and private networks, today announced that
the company has deployed its best-in-class carrier-grade wireless
broadband solution for the implementation of Mar
del Plata's Smart
City network. This network is the driving force behind better
governance in municipality services, and the improvement of life among
residents and tourists.The project is valued at over $1 million.

Selected for its unmatched reliability and operational efficiency, XN
Networking and Anixter
International Inc., Alvarion's (News - Alert) partners in Argentina, deployed
Alvarion's BreezeMAX®
Extreme base stations and CPEs
and BreezeNET®
B, managed by the AlvariStar
Network Management System, to deliver a complete and robust solution for
the entire Smart City implementation in the 4.9 to 5.35 GHz unlicensed
frequencies. This solution provides Point-to-Multipoint as well as
wireless backhaul while offering advanced 'end-to-end' Quality of
Service (QoS) that allows multiple scenarios for public and private
connectivity.

"In Mar del Plata, we wanted to create a digital city to serve
both the government and our people. We did this by choosing a secure
wireless network that had the ability to be efficient and effective
while providing public and private connectivity," stated Eng. Renato
Rosello,IT sub-secretary, Municipality of Mar del Plata.
"This network has launched our city into the digital era allowing
residents access to resources for the highest level of education and
healthcare services enabling personal growth and prosperity. The
advanced infrastructure will support our plas to attract and build a
significant information technology industry while creating a safe city
environment to foster tourism."

Mar del Plata is Argentina's 7th largest city with a
population of over 600,000 and a sophisticated tourist infrastructure.
The Smart City network connects dozens of municipal centers including
libraries, community centers, schools and other educational centers,
delivering data connectivity, VoIP and video applications. The City's
secured private network connects municipal offices as well as hospitals
and primary healthcare centers to allow sharing of sensitive information
in a highly protected network within each organization. The City
capitalizes on this network infrastructure to also enable indoor and
outdoor public Internet access, serving both local residents and the
tourist community.

"When we build Smart Cities, we can immediately see the power of how a
government can positively affect the quality of life in the community,"
said Eng. Ariel Scaliter, President, XN Networking. "By using a
Carrier-grade reliable network such as the solution from Alvarion, the
city can instantly give residents, businesses and tourists the ability
to prosper and enjoy their city, and allow the city government and other
agencies to better serve these sectors for years to come."

"Our multi-technology platform is a proven Smart City facilitator with
the ability to provide both public and private connectivity across a
secured network," said Zeev Farkash, EVP Sales, Alvarion.
"Knowing that our solution has helped improve the quality of life for
yet another city enforces our goal to move forward with our
technological advancements for the digital future."

XN Networking is an engineering company working in Brazil and Argentina
that provides solutions for the development of Digital Cities, Urban
Surveillance Camera Systems and Public and Private
Telecommunications Networks bringing smart solutions to customers. (www.xnargentina.com)

Anixter is a leading global supplier of communications and security
products, electrical and electronic wire and cable, fasteners and other
small components. Anixter helps its customers specify solutions and make
informed purchasing decisions around technologies, applications and
relevant standards. Throughout the world, Anixter provides innovative
supply chain management solutions to reduce customers' total cost of
production and implementation. (www.anixter.com)

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on the current
expectations or beliefs of Alvarion's management and are subject to
various factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those described in the forward-looking
statements. The following factors, among others, could cause actual
results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking
statements: our failure to fully implement our 2012 turnaround plan, our
inability to reallocate our resources and rationalize our business in a
more efficient manner, potential impact on our business of the current
globalmacro-economic uncertainties, the inability of our
customers to obtain credit to purchase our products as a result of
global credit market conditions, the failure to fund projects under the
U.S. broadband stimulus program, continued delays in 4G license
allocation in certain countries; the failure of the products for the 4G
market to develop as anticipated; our inability to capture market share
in the expected growth of the 4G market as anticipated, due to, among
other things, competitive reasons or failure to execute in our sales,
marketing or manufacturing objectives; the failure of our strategic
initiatives to enable us to more effectively capitalize on market
opportunities as anticipated; delays in the receipt of orders from
customers and in the delivery by us of such orders; our failure to fully
and effectively integrate the business and technology of Wavion Inc.,
acquired by us in November 2011, into our products and realize the
expected synergies from the acquisition; the failure of the markets for
our (including Wavion's) products to grow as anticipated; our inability
to further identify, develop and achieve success for new products,
services and technologies; increased competition and its effect on
pricing, spending, third-party relationships and revenues; our inability
to establish and maintain relationships with commerce, advertising,
marketing, and technology providers; our inability to comply with
covenants included in our financing agreements; our inability to raise
sufficient funds to continue our operations, either through equity
issuances or asset sales; and other risks detailed from time to time in
the Company's annual reports on Form 20-F as well as in other filings
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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